New York, 1895
The religious war which is being waged in Babylon is still on, and, according to the statements of Evangelist Cressey and his associates, who are leading the crusade against the devil, it has not reached its height yet. Another open-air meeting was held Tuesday morning, and the attendance was larger than at any previous meeting. The number of converts made, it is claimed, shows a gradual awakening among backsliders, and those who have been scoffers at religion are silent. Evangelist Cressey says that before he leaves the town he will visit the home of every family in Babylon and hold a special prayer meeting at each home. If an entrance to any of the houses is refused, as a number of people have declared it will be, he says he will kneel outside on the cold ground and offer up a prayer for the inmates' conversion.
—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, Feb. 22, 1895, p. 1.
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Monday, May 26, 2008
Friday, April 25, 2008
Where Women May Not Pray
1916
In some parts of the world the women are not even allowed to pray. Certain Hindoo congregations deny their women this privilege, and among the Ainus women can pray only in very rare cases as the deputies of their husbands. The natives of Madagascar, however, stretch a point and permit their women to intercede with the powers of evil, but prayer to their supreme being is strictly a masculine prerogative.
In some parts of the world the women are not even allowed to pray. Certain Hindoo congregations deny their women this privilege, and among the Ainus women can pray only in very rare cases as the deputies of their husbands. The natives of Madagascar, however, stretch a point and permit their women to intercede with the powers of evil, but prayer to their supreme being is strictly a masculine prerogative.
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Cottage Prayer Meetings
1900
The People's Forum
How would you make the cottage prayer-meeting more interesting and fruitful? — A. L. LESTER, Pontiac, Mich.
The little cottage prayer meeting is one of the most powerful means Christ uses today for the salvation of men. Every pastor who is seeking the conversion of young or old should encourage in every way in his power the meeting of small bands of Christian people for prayer and testimony. It is in these small home gatherings that so many young people find Christ as their Savior. In these meetings they are less likely to be carried off their feet by religious excitement which attends a larger gathering, and they feel God's presence oftentimes more deeply. Our subscriber asks how these can be made more interesting. If by "interesting" he means "entertaining" a wide field for discussion is opened. But if he means by "interesting," "more fruitful in conversions," then the subject is simplified. The object of a "cottage" prayer meeting is to place all more at ease. Those in charge of the cottage prayer meeting should aim to invite and have present some unconverted persons. The subjects discussed in an informal manner should be such as will draw them into the discussion, and the Christians present should seek to find out what stands in the way of their salvation. To give some point to a meeting will invariably arouse interest. If no unconverted persons are present let some of those present mention relatives or friends whom they wish to see converted. Let there be prayer over each one and let there be general discussion as to how God would have them reach these particular ones. Every cottage prayer meeting should be characterized by neighborly Christian greetings, the singing of Gospel Hymns, reading of Scriptures, prayer and testimony. The leader should use all the tact at his command to keep the discussions on the thought of the evening. The conversational manner rather than set speech should be encouraged and every effort made to draw out the timid.
—The Ram's Horn, March 17, 1900, p. 8.
The People's Forum
How would you make the cottage prayer-meeting more interesting and fruitful? — A. L. LESTER, Pontiac, Mich.
The little cottage prayer meeting is one of the most powerful means Christ uses today for the salvation of men. Every pastor who is seeking the conversion of young or old should encourage in every way in his power the meeting of small bands of Christian people for prayer and testimony. It is in these small home gatherings that so many young people find Christ as their Savior. In these meetings they are less likely to be carried off their feet by religious excitement which attends a larger gathering, and they feel God's presence oftentimes more deeply. Our subscriber asks how these can be made more interesting. If by "interesting" he means "entertaining" a wide field for discussion is opened. But if he means by "interesting," "more fruitful in conversions," then the subject is simplified. The object of a "cottage" prayer meeting is to place all more at ease. Those in charge of the cottage prayer meeting should aim to invite and have present some unconverted persons. The subjects discussed in an informal manner should be such as will draw them into the discussion, and the Christians present should seek to find out what stands in the way of their salvation. To give some point to a meeting will invariably arouse interest. If no unconverted persons are present let some of those present mention relatives or friends whom they wish to see converted. Let there be prayer over each one and let there be general discussion as to how God would have them reach these particular ones. Every cottage prayer meeting should be characterized by neighborly Christian greetings, the singing of Gospel Hymns, reading of Scriptures, prayer and testimony. The leader should use all the tact at his command to keep the discussions on the thought of the evening. The conversational manner rather than set speech should be encouraged and every effort made to draw out the timid.
—The Ram's Horn, March 17, 1900, p. 8.
Sunday, March 30, 2008
A Dying Man's Fruitless Prayer
1900
A man who had lived a very wicked life prayed one prayer on his death-bed, and that was, "Oh, that my influence could be gathered up and buried with me!" The petition was in vain.
He passed away, but his influence remained behind him, and is still working as a blight upon the lives it touched.
—The Ram's Horn, Nov. 17, 1900, p. 10.
A man who had lived a very wicked life prayed one prayer on his death-bed, and that was, "Oh, that my influence could be gathered up and buried with me!" The petition was in vain.
He passed away, but his influence remained behind him, and is still working as a blight upon the lives it touched.
—The Ram's Horn, Nov. 17, 1900, p. 10.
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Saying Grace
1910
I own that I am disposed to say grace upon 20 other occasions in the course of the day besides my dinner. I want a form for setting out upon a pleasant walk, for a moonlight ramble, for a friendly meeting, or a solved problem. Why have we none for books, those spiritual repasts — a grace before Milton — a grace before Shakespeare — a devotional exercise proper to be said before reading the "Faery Queen?" — Charles Lamb.
I own that I am disposed to say grace upon 20 other occasions in the course of the day besides my dinner. I want a form for setting out upon a pleasant walk, for a moonlight ramble, for a friendly meeting, or a solved problem. Why have we none for books, those spiritual repasts — a grace before Milton — a grace before Shakespeare — a devotional exercise proper to be said before reading the "Faery Queen?" — Charles Lamb.
Friday, July 13, 2007
General Grant's Religion
1885
Religion in the time of Grant has ceased to be a subject of difference. In his dying hours he said that he was glad to receive messages of cheer from persons of every religion and from those without any religion. Here is, perhaps, the greatest recognition from one in authority yet made on the quality of those without religious profession. Grant made it in the face of death, and how singularly clear his mind must have been of superstition is realized in that congratulation.
Every day was expected to be his last, and, having his hard back to the world, the man of faith said: "Thank you, who believe in all your different sects, for kindness to me, and my blessing on you, too, who have never thought on these subjects."
From the most radical type of Catholic to the most ancient type of Jewish Rabbi; from the Chinaman who washes clothes in the name of Confucius and takes note of every day's duties to the most sneering skeptic out of the German laboratory, the realm of toleration has grown through Grant more than through any preachers, priests or pontiffs.
He went abroad and saw how every body worshiped, looked into their temples and tied the world together with the chains of his observation and good will. — Gath's Sunday letter.
Religion in the time of Grant has ceased to be a subject of difference. In his dying hours he said that he was glad to receive messages of cheer from persons of every religion and from those without any religion. Here is, perhaps, the greatest recognition from one in authority yet made on the quality of those without religious profession. Grant made it in the face of death, and how singularly clear his mind must have been of superstition is realized in that congratulation.
Every day was expected to be his last, and, having his hard back to the world, the man of faith said: "Thank you, who believe in all your different sects, for kindness to me, and my blessing on you, too, who have never thought on these subjects."
From the most radical type of Catholic to the most ancient type of Jewish Rabbi; from the Chinaman who washes clothes in the name of Confucius and takes note of every day's duties to the most sneering skeptic out of the German laboratory, the realm of toleration has grown through Grant more than through any preachers, priests or pontiffs.
He went abroad and saw how every body worshiped, looked into their temples and tied the world together with the chains of his observation and good will. — Gath's Sunday letter.
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Likeness of the Devil
1905
The hobby of the late Col. Blumenthal was "the collection of devils," says an English exchange. He devoted himself to collecting all sorts of representations of his satanic majesty, and he secured about 350 likenesses of the devil on canvas, and in marble, wood, bronze and ivory.
St. Patrick's Wondrous Faith
Nor was Patrick an ordinary Christian. Savages and cannibals surround him with threats and with assault. He knows not fear. Hunger and want stare him in the face. Idolatry and witchcraft oppose him. But his will is inflexible; his heart impregnable; his faith strong and mighty. Thus he labored on, making his own life a living proof of the reality of the gospel whereby he overthrew fetishism and heathenism and saved a mighty nation.
And here is the secret of it all, in his own words: "The love and fear of God more and more inflamed my heart. My faith and my spirit were enlarged, so that I prayed a hundred times a day, and nearly as much at night. Before the light I arose to my prayers, in the snow, in the frost, and in the rain, and experienced no evil at all. Nor was I affected with sloth, for the Spirit of God was warm in me."
The hobby of the late Col. Blumenthal was "the collection of devils," says an English exchange. He devoted himself to collecting all sorts of representations of his satanic majesty, and he secured about 350 likenesses of the devil on canvas, and in marble, wood, bronze and ivory.
St. Patrick's Wondrous Faith
Nor was Patrick an ordinary Christian. Savages and cannibals surround him with threats and with assault. He knows not fear. Hunger and want stare him in the face. Idolatry and witchcraft oppose him. But his will is inflexible; his heart impregnable; his faith strong and mighty. Thus he labored on, making his own life a living proof of the reality of the gospel whereby he overthrew fetishism and heathenism and saved a mighty nation.
And here is the secret of it all, in his own words: "The love and fear of God more and more inflamed my heart. My faith and my spirit were enlarged, so that I prayed a hundred times a day, and nearly as much at night. Before the light I arose to my prayers, in the snow, in the frost, and in the rain, and experienced no evil at all. Nor was I affected with sloth, for the Spirit of God was warm in me."
Friday, July 6, 2007
Free Lunch Goes With Religion
Illinois, 1905
Inducements to Be Offered Bloomington Men to Attend Church
Bloomington, Illinois, March 7 — To draw the men to the prayer meeting has been a problem before the congregation of the First Methodist church of this city for a long time. This week a new attraction will be introduced. A free lunch will be served between the hours of 6:30 and 7:15 o'clock for all business men and mechanics. It is believed that the merchants, clerks, and men in the shops will go from their work at 6 o'clock to the church and after eating remain to the 7:30 o'clock prayer meeting.
—The Daily Review, Decatur, Illinois, March 7, 1905.
Mormons Can Elder Cannon
His Conduct Is Declared to Have Been Unchristian
Salt Lake City, March 7 — Former United States Senator Frank J. Cannon has been disfellowshiped from the Mormon church for "unchristianlike conduct and apostasy."
This action of the church authorities followed a hearing in the city of Ogden before the local bishopric with whom charges had been preferred against Elder Cannon who is editor of the Salt Lake Tribune. The charges were based on editorial utterances of the Tribune including "an address to the earthly king of the kingdom of God." Mr. Cannon admitted the authorship.
Inducements to Be Offered Bloomington Men to Attend Church
Bloomington, Illinois, March 7 — To draw the men to the prayer meeting has been a problem before the congregation of the First Methodist church of this city for a long time. This week a new attraction will be introduced. A free lunch will be served between the hours of 6:30 and 7:15 o'clock for all business men and mechanics. It is believed that the merchants, clerks, and men in the shops will go from their work at 6 o'clock to the church and after eating remain to the 7:30 o'clock prayer meeting.
—The Daily Review, Decatur, Illinois, March 7, 1905.
Mormons Can Elder Cannon
His Conduct Is Declared to Have Been Unchristian
Salt Lake City, March 7 — Former United States Senator Frank J. Cannon has been disfellowshiped from the Mormon church for "unchristianlike conduct and apostasy."
This action of the church authorities followed a hearing in the city of Ogden before the local bishopric with whom charges had been preferred against Elder Cannon who is editor of the Salt Lake Tribune. The charges were based on editorial utterances of the Tribune including "an address to the earthly king of the kingdom of God." Mr. Cannon admitted the authorship.
Wednesday, July 4, 2007
Address to Japanese Dead
1905
At a Shinto service recently performed in honor of the spirits of the dead who fell in the siege of Port Arthur the task of speaking the invocation (saimon) was performed by Gen. Nogi. He read the following:
"This day, the 14th of the first month of the thirty-eighth year of Meiji, I, Nogi Kiten, commander of the third army, with these my comrades, observing due ceremony, offer reverence to you, spirits of officers and soldiers of the third army who have died, for your country.
"More than 210 days have passed since the army landed on the Kwantung peninsula, and throughout all that time you bravely and stoutly fought. You gave your lives to the points of the enemy's weapons. Many a one of you perished amid raging waves and buffeting storms. But your valiant deeds were not in vain.
"If we have seen the enemy's warships completely destroyed in the harbors of Port Arthur, if we have seen his fortresses fall, it has been in truth through the might you left behind you. We, your comrades, who should have shared your fate, are the recipients of a most gracious message from his majesty the commander-in-chief.
"Here, entering Port Arthur, we stand on places overlooking the hills, the rivers, the fortifications that your loyal blood has dyed. Noble spirits with due rites of purification and offering we invoke your presence. Come among us, we pray you, and receive our reverence."
At a Shinto service recently performed in honor of the spirits of the dead who fell in the siege of Port Arthur the task of speaking the invocation (saimon) was performed by Gen. Nogi. He read the following:
"This day, the 14th of the first month of the thirty-eighth year of Meiji, I, Nogi Kiten, commander of the third army, with these my comrades, observing due ceremony, offer reverence to you, spirits of officers and soldiers of the third army who have died, for your country.
"More than 210 days have passed since the army landed on the Kwantung peninsula, and throughout all that time you bravely and stoutly fought. You gave your lives to the points of the enemy's weapons. Many a one of you perished amid raging waves and buffeting storms. But your valiant deeds were not in vain.
"If we have seen the enemy's warships completely destroyed in the harbors of Port Arthur, if we have seen his fortresses fall, it has been in truth through the might you left behind you. We, your comrades, who should have shared your fate, are the recipients of a most gracious message from his majesty the commander-in-chief.
"Here, entering Port Arthur, we stand on places overlooking the hills, the rivers, the fortifications that your loyal blood has dyed. Noble spirits with due rites of purification and offering we invoke your presence. Come among us, we pray you, and receive our reverence."
Friday, June 29, 2007
A Place for Hosea
1896
Dean Hole, in his "Little Tour in America," gives the following good story, which was picked up at an entertainment given in his honor by the Lotos Club of New York. The quaintest story of the evening was told by Dr. Greer, of a tedious, monotonous preacher, who had exhausted the patience of his hearers by an elaborate dissertation on the four greater prophets, and when, to their sad disgust, he passed on to the minor, and asked, "And now, my brethren, where shall we place Hosea?" a man rose from the congregation and made answer, "You can place him here, sir. I'm off."
City Paved With Gold
Prescott, the capital of Arizona, boasts that it is the nearest approach to the New Jerusalem as described in the Bible, as its streets are being paved with gold. The granite used for pavements contains $4 in gold and twenty cents in silver to every ton, so that in time, when less expensive methods of reducing ores are used, it may pay the city to tear up and crush its street pavements. — New York Times.
Time for Prayer
If a praying machine were invented many would use it if it did not take too much time from business to wind it up.
Dean Hole, in his "Little Tour in America," gives the following good story, which was picked up at an entertainment given in his honor by the Lotos Club of New York. The quaintest story of the evening was told by Dr. Greer, of a tedious, monotonous preacher, who had exhausted the patience of his hearers by an elaborate dissertation on the four greater prophets, and when, to their sad disgust, he passed on to the minor, and asked, "And now, my brethren, where shall we place Hosea?" a man rose from the congregation and made answer, "You can place him here, sir. I'm off."
City Paved With Gold
Prescott, the capital of Arizona, boasts that it is the nearest approach to the New Jerusalem as described in the Bible, as its streets are being paved with gold. The granite used for pavements contains $4 in gold and twenty cents in silver to every ton, so that in time, when less expensive methods of reducing ores are used, it may pay the city to tear up and crush its street pavements. — New York Times.
Time for Prayer
If a praying machine were invented many would use it if it did not take too much time from business to wind it up.
Sunday, June 24, 2007
"More Brains, Lord!"
1887
Rev. Dr. Sunderland, on accepting the pastorship of an American church in Paris, offered his farewell prayer as Chaplain of the United States Senate, a short time after. On this occasion he made some peculiar home-thrusts at the honorable gentlemen for whom, during four months previous, he had been daily interceding at the Throne of Grace. He uttered the following supplication very audibly:
"We pray Thee, 0 Lord! to give to the councillors and statesmen of America brains! More brains, Lord! More BRAINS!"
On hearing this very well-timed entreaty, but rather harsh criticism, Mr. Stunner dropped his bead upon his breast quite feelingly, Jim Lane rolled his eyes piously, Garrett Davis evinced signs of emotion, and a gentleman in the reporters' gallery uttered an emphatic "Amen!" by way of response.
Many of the honorable secretaries dropped their heads upon their desks to conceal a smile at the Chaplain's supplication, which smile extended to the dimensions of a broad grin, as the "Amen" was heard to proceed from the reporters' gallery. The worthy Sergeant-at-Arms, who was standing in his usual deeply reverential attitude, (with solemn countenance on religious thoughts intent,) turned the white of one of his official eyes in the direction of the self-constituted clerk in the gallery, but he evidently could not discover a countenance which did not exhibit the utmost decorum of expression.
—Anecdotes of the Rebellion, p. 21.
Rev. Dr. Sunderland, on accepting the pastorship of an American church in Paris, offered his farewell prayer as Chaplain of the United States Senate, a short time after. On this occasion he made some peculiar home-thrusts at the honorable gentlemen for whom, during four months previous, he had been daily interceding at the Throne of Grace. He uttered the following supplication very audibly:
"We pray Thee, 0 Lord! to give to the councillors and statesmen of America brains! More brains, Lord! More BRAINS!"
On hearing this very well-timed entreaty, but rather harsh criticism, Mr. Stunner dropped his bead upon his breast quite feelingly, Jim Lane rolled his eyes piously, Garrett Davis evinced signs of emotion, and a gentleman in the reporters' gallery uttered an emphatic "Amen!" by way of response.
Many of the honorable secretaries dropped their heads upon their desks to conceal a smile at the Chaplain's supplication, which smile extended to the dimensions of a broad grin, as the "Amen" was heard to proceed from the reporters' gallery. The worthy Sergeant-at-Arms, who was standing in his usual deeply reverential attitude, (with solemn countenance on religious thoughts intent,) turned the white of one of his official eyes in the direction of the self-constituted clerk in the gallery, but he evidently could not discover a countenance which did not exhibit the utmost decorum of expression.
—Anecdotes of the Rebellion, p. 21.
Sunday, June 17, 2007
'Bookless Religion' Menace Told Pastoral Conference
1920
BERKELEY, California, Nov. 17. — A bookless religion may develop from the higher criticism of the Bible unless men and women of the present day rise from an alleged state of illiteracy, was the prediction this morning of a prominent divine speaking at the second day session of an Interdenominational Pastoral conference held at the First Congregational church under the auspices of the Pacific School of Religion.
New religious cults were characterized as the dogma of illiterates by Professor C. A. Johnston Ross of Union Theological Seminary, New York, while a modern Bible to fit twentieth century needs was urged by Rev. W. T. Bentley, pastor of the First Christian church of San Francisco.
"We may come to the time when we shall see a bookless religion," was the statement of Dr. Ross. "Religion was not always organized around a book. Abraham never owned a Bible and never went to a prayer meeting. Religion may be organized about the philosophy of life." Dr. Ross scored ridiculers of the Bible, declaring that when men were unable to make translations which suited their whims that they immediately turned scoffers. He said: "The present criticism of the Bible is but part of the indifference to history as a whole. Because the Bible speaks a language that is necessarily antique, does not mean that it has lost its value. If the state of education were higher in the country today a more truthful interpretation could be made."
"The prophecy of the present day that the church will lose the Bible is not an amazing thing," said Dr. Bentley. "Many people have lost it already. The re-orientation of the Bible to fit present needs is necessary."
Prayer in the present day seems to be regarded as a "kind of pious exercise," Rev. James M. Campbell, D. D., 80-year-old preacher and author of Manhattan Beach., Cal., told the ministers assembled at the opening session of the conference yesterday afternoon.
Ministers, he said, were to be included among those who said their prayers in this fashion. The man who gave an outward appearance of a "holy life," but who "inwardly" was undeserving of respect was scored by the gray-haired minister, whose book, "The Indwelling Christ," and other volumes are well known in religious lay circles.
"The things one thinks are far more important than the things one does," he said in speaking on the subject, "The Inner Life of the Minister." "Being is greater than doing."
"Examine thyself, not others. As ministers you think first of others, but turn your attention to yourselves for a change. Hold yourselves to strict account; scrutinize your every action. Every preacher has a battle to fight — the battle between the spirit and the flesh. Prayer is a necessity, but in this age prayer has come to be a pious exercise instead of what it really is."
—Oakland Tribune, Oakland, CA, Nov. 17, 1920, p. 2.
BERKELEY, California, Nov. 17. — A bookless religion may develop from the higher criticism of the Bible unless men and women of the present day rise from an alleged state of illiteracy, was the prediction this morning of a prominent divine speaking at the second day session of an Interdenominational Pastoral conference held at the First Congregational church under the auspices of the Pacific School of Religion.
New religious cults were characterized as the dogma of illiterates by Professor C. A. Johnston Ross of Union Theological Seminary, New York, while a modern Bible to fit twentieth century needs was urged by Rev. W. T. Bentley, pastor of the First Christian church of San Francisco.
"We may come to the time when we shall see a bookless religion," was the statement of Dr. Ross. "Religion was not always organized around a book. Abraham never owned a Bible and never went to a prayer meeting. Religion may be organized about the philosophy of life." Dr. Ross scored ridiculers of the Bible, declaring that when men were unable to make translations which suited their whims that they immediately turned scoffers. He said: "The present criticism of the Bible is but part of the indifference to history as a whole. Because the Bible speaks a language that is necessarily antique, does not mean that it has lost its value. If the state of education were higher in the country today a more truthful interpretation could be made."
"The prophecy of the present day that the church will lose the Bible is not an amazing thing," said Dr. Bentley. "Many people have lost it already. The re-orientation of the Bible to fit present needs is necessary."
Prayer in the present day seems to be regarded as a "kind of pious exercise," Rev. James M. Campbell, D. D., 80-year-old preacher and author of Manhattan Beach., Cal., told the ministers assembled at the opening session of the conference yesterday afternoon.
Ministers, he said, were to be included among those who said their prayers in this fashion. The man who gave an outward appearance of a "holy life," but who "inwardly" was undeserving of respect was scored by the gray-haired minister, whose book, "The Indwelling Christ," and other volumes are well known in religious lay circles.
"The things one thinks are far more important than the things one does," he said in speaking on the subject, "The Inner Life of the Minister." "Being is greater than doing."
"Examine thyself, not others. As ministers you think first of others, but turn your attention to yourselves for a change. Hold yourselves to strict account; scrutinize your every action. Every preacher has a battle to fight — the battle between the spirit and the flesh. Prayer is a necessity, but in this age prayer has come to be a pious exercise instead of what it really is."
—Oakland Tribune, Oakland, CA, Nov. 17, 1920, p. 2.
Thursday, June 14, 2007
"The Walking Bible" Visits Nazarene Church
Illinois, 1910
Church of the Nazarene
Revival extraordinary at the First Church of the Nazarene. In connection with the general revival movement that is now sweeping the city, the First Church of the Nazarene, 6417 Eggleston avenue, Rev. C. E. Cornell, pastor, began a special series of evangelistic services Wednesday.
Rev. Bud Robinson of Texas, one of the most unique and successful evangelists in America, will preach each night except Saturday. This is Mr. Robinson's third visit to this church. On each of the former visits the church was packed to the doors and hundreds were seeking the Lord. Bud is called "The Walking Bible." He can now quote accurately seven or eight thousand passages of scripture. He is a man of deep spirituality, keen, logical, witty and knows how to bring things to pass.
The church has been praying for weeks that this revival will exceed anything in its history. There will be Bible readings Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons at 2:30. Thursday of each week will be devoted to fasting and prayer from 10:30 a.m. to four p.m. The public are cordially invited to hear this remarkable man.
Ashland Christian Revival
Evangelistic meetings will commence at the Ashland Christian church in the Masonic hall at 6319 Ashland avenue, and continue indefinitely. The distinguished evangelists, W. P. Brooks, Papps and Lewis, will be the speakers and no better team is known than they. Eloquent, earnest and elevating and they will doubtless draw big crowds at every service. Everyone is invited.
—Suburbanite Economist, Chicago, Oct. 28, 1910.
Church of the Nazarene
Revival extraordinary at the First Church of the Nazarene. In connection with the general revival movement that is now sweeping the city, the First Church of the Nazarene, 6417 Eggleston avenue, Rev. C. E. Cornell, pastor, began a special series of evangelistic services Wednesday.
Rev. Bud Robinson of Texas, one of the most unique and successful evangelists in America, will preach each night except Saturday. This is Mr. Robinson's third visit to this church. On each of the former visits the church was packed to the doors and hundreds were seeking the Lord. Bud is called "The Walking Bible." He can now quote accurately seven or eight thousand passages of scripture. He is a man of deep spirituality, keen, logical, witty and knows how to bring things to pass.
The church has been praying for weeks that this revival will exceed anything in its history. There will be Bible readings Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons at 2:30. Thursday of each week will be devoted to fasting and prayer from 10:30 a.m. to four p.m. The public are cordially invited to hear this remarkable man.
Ashland Christian Revival
Evangelistic meetings will commence at the Ashland Christian church in the Masonic hall at 6319 Ashland avenue, and continue indefinitely. The distinguished evangelists, W. P. Brooks, Papps and Lewis, will be the speakers and no better team is known than they. Eloquent, earnest and elevating and they will doubtless draw big crowds at every service. Everyone is invited.
—Suburbanite Economist, Chicago, Oct. 28, 1910.
Monday, June 4, 2007
King of Hoboes Openly Defends Knight of Road
1914
We Need Doughnuts and Coffee, Not Prayers
St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 5. — James Eads How, a wealthy resident of St. Louis, and who inherited his wealth, has an interesting and not altogether useless hobby — the apologetic advertising of the American tramp. Mr. How is pleased to be called "the millionaire tramp."
At a recent meeting in St. Louis "the millionaire tramp," who by the way has hoboed his way over the United States with the best of them, gave utterance to the following sentiment:
"We need the doughnut and the cup of coffee more than we need prayers. Society is very self-respecting but society is not a necessity and employment is. The cup of coffee and the doughnut are essential to the affairs of life."
The trouble with Mr. How and his fellow hoboes is that none of them cares anything for prayers, and they care nothing for the trouble of earning the doughnut and the cup of coffee. If the doughnut and the cup of coffee were provided for all men and women and all children so that they could be fed without an effort, the world would be far worse off than it is today. Again, if the heavens rained doughnuts and coffee, a considerable portion of Mr. How's following, the professional hoboes, would object to the labor and trouble of picking up the doughnuts and gathering up the coffee. They would insist on somebody else assuming that responsibility and of serving the coffee and the doughnuts to them. Again, a considerable number of the associates of Mr. How would believe that society ought to furnish doughnuts to them because they have been railing at society.
At present the people who work instead of spending their time in idleness and who restrain their passions and appetites have no trouble in securing doughnuts and coffee but as long as the world lasts the people who think only of their own appetites, their own desires, and their own comforts will have to get their doughnuts and their coffee at the back-door of the people who do the real work of the world.
Mr. How does not think much of prayer, because he has not tried it. Perhaps if he knew its helpful and inspiring effect on character, if he knew how it could help sustain and stimulate the soul of a man, and arouse in him new purposes, he would think better of it. Perhaps, too, if "the millionaire hobo" knew how prayer inspired a man to a sense of his own responsibility, and to a realization of his duties to himself, to his neighbors, and to humanity, he might become a useful member of that society which he professes to despise, and so he would be better able to give good advice to his useless and inefficient followers. — Montgomery Advertiser.
We Need Doughnuts and Coffee, Not Prayers
St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 5. — James Eads How, a wealthy resident of St. Louis, and who inherited his wealth, has an interesting and not altogether useless hobby — the apologetic advertising of the American tramp. Mr. How is pleased to be called "the millionaire tramp."
At a recent meeting in St. Louis "the millionaire tramp," who by the way has hoboed his way over the United States with the best of them, gave utterance to the following sentiment:
"We need the doughnut and the cup of coffee more than we need prayers. Society is very self-respecting but society is not a necessity and employment is. The cup of coffee and the doughnut are essential to the affairs of life."
The trouble with Mr. How and his fellow hoboes is that none of them cares anything for prayers, and they care nothing for the trouble of earning the doughnut and the cup of coffee. If the doughnut and the cup of coffee were provided for all men and women and all children so that they could be fed without an effort, the world would be far worse off than it is today. Again, if the heavens rained doughnuts and coffee, a considerable portion of Mr. How's following, the professional hoboes, would object to the labor and trouble of picking up the doughnuts and gathering up the coffee. They would insist on somebody else assuming that responsibility and of serving the coffee and the doughnuts to them. Again, a considerable number of the associates of Mr. How would believe that society ought to furnish doughnuts to them because they have been railing at society.
At present the people who work instead of spending their time in idleness and who restrain their passions and appetites have no trouble in securing doughnuts and coffee but as long as the world lasts the people who think only of their own appetites, their own desires, and their own comforts will have to get their doughnuts and their coffee at the back-door of the people who do the real work of the world.
Mr. How does not think much of prayer, because he has not tried it. Perhaps if he knew its helpful and inspiring effect on character, if he knew how it could help sustain and stimulate the soul of a man, and arouse in him new purposes, he would think better of it. Perhaps, too, if "the millionaire hobo" knew how prayer inspired a man to a sense of his own responsibility, and to a realization of his duties to himself, to his neighbors, and to humanity, he might become a useful member of that society which he professes to despise, and so he would be better able to give good advice to his useless and inefficient followers. — Montgomery Advertiser.
Saturday, June 2, 2007
Men Try to Beat Devil Out of Boy
1914
Holy Roller Preacher and Two Illinoisans Accused of Assault
Lad Sustains Broken Arm
Cousin, With Club, Ends Attack After He Is Seriously Injured — Fanatics in Jail Try to Pray the Prison Doors Open
Murphysboro, Ill., Feb. 10. — Noah Hickman lies at the point of death at his home in the foothills of the Ozarks, in Jackson county, as the result of flogging and trampling he suffered when he refused to accept the Holy Roller faith. Dolph Hickman, young Hickman's father, Walter Ellis and Adam Cripps were arrested on the charge of assault. Cripps was released on $500 bond.
Friday night the Holy Rollers held an all-night meeting at the Hickman home. Young Hickman, who is an epileptic, was told that he was possessed of evil spirits, and the Holy Rollers said they would trample the demons out of him.
Cousin Halts Attack
Hickman's father, one of his sisters, Ellis and Cripps bore their victim to the floor after flogging him and trampled on him. He sustained a broken arm, a dislocated shoulder and several internal injuries. The arrival of Tom Hickman, the boy's cousin, with a club ended the attack.
The Holy Rollers have held all-night prayer services at Macedonia, Dutch Ridge, Poplar Ridge and other remote centers in the hills. Some of them have killed off swine and let them die in the woods as things unfit to touch. The district is aroused and will try to stamp out the faith.
The Holy Rollers in the Jonesboro jail are attempting to pray the prison doors open.
Holy Roller Preacher and Two Illinoisans Accused of Assault
Lad Sustains Broken Arm
Cousin, With Club, Ends Attack After He Is Seriously Injured — Fanatics in Jail Try to Pray the Prison Doors Open
Murphysboro, Ill., Feb. 10. — Noah Hickman lies at the point of death at his home in the foothills of the Ozarks, in Jackson county, as the result of flogging and trampling he suffered when he refused to accept the Holy Roller faith. Dolph Hickman, young Hickman's father, Walter Ellis and Adam Cripps were arrested on the charge of assault. Cripps was released on $500 bond.
Friday night the Holy Rollers held an all-night meeting at the Hickman home. Young Hickman, who is an epileptic, was told that he was possessed of evil spirits, and the Holy Rollers said they would trample the demons out of him.
Cousin Halts Attack
Hickman's father, one of his sisters, Ellis and Cripps bore their victim to the floor after flogging him and trampled on him. He sustained a broken arm, a dislocated shoulder and several internal injuries. The arrival of Tom Hickman, the boy's cousin, with a club ended the attack.
The Holy Rollers have held all-night prayer services at Macedonia, Dutch Ridge, Poplar Ridge and other remote centers in the hills. Some of them have killed off swine and let them die in the woods as things unfit to touch. The district is aroused and will try to stamp out the faith.
The Holy Rollers in the Jonesboro jail are attempting to pray the prison doors open.
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
In Temptation, Look to the Saviour's Greater Glory
Ohio, 1902
Discussed by Rector of All Saints Church Sunday
Church Members Should Pray Over Their Amusements — Where to Draw Line
Rev. J. D. Herron, of All Saints Episcopal church, preached Sunday morning on the "Temptations of Christ." His sermon was a timely one, treating as it did of amusements of the day. After treating of the "lust of the flesh" and the only hope for the drunkard he spoke as follows on the "lust of the eye" and the "pride of life."
The lust of the eye, the power of the world to make us forget God, to make us worship and serve the creature more than the Creator, to choke us with cares and riches and pleasures, so that we may bring no fruit to perfection, this lust, what life is there which has not felt its blight?
It is a hard temptation to decline, for it changes with the circumstances of each life. It is not the same for any two individuals. There are sources of temptation to every life. All seek naturally after pleasure. Pleasures are not evil in themselves, but all of them, when touching upon our bad hearts, are prime causes of evil. People say that they must have pleasures, that it is a natural hunger of the heart, and they say rightly. But pleasure has its limits. To escape the poison of worldly lust, it must be sanctified by the word of God and by prayer.
Do dancing, card playing, theatre-going, croquet, billiards, lawn tennis, novel reading, music, painting, gossiping, lunching interfere with the flow of your religious life, benumb your soul from prayer, from desire for the Holy Feast, from thoughts of Heaven, from meditations upon the life and the love of Jesus? "If thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee, for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into Hell."
Do you ask, how can we draw the line? How can we know when these pleasures of life are hurtful to us? Would it not be better for the church to give us rules, and tell us what we may do, and what we should not do? Dear friends! the Saviour gave us no rules. He gave us simply himself. Let the Holy Feast of the altar, where He comes to meet you, be your guide. For there you will be with the Saviour upon the top of an exceeding high mountain, the mountain of human aspiration, from which the evil one has been dethroned, and as the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them pass before your imagination, the vision of a greater glory will fill the eye of your soul.
—The Portsmouth Times, Portsmouth, Ohio, Feb. 22, 1902, p. 7.
Discussed by Rector of All Saints Church Sunday
Church Members Should Pray Over Their Amusements — Where to Draw Line
Rev. J. D. Herron, of All Saints Episcopal church, preached Sunday morning on the "Temptations of Christ." His sermon was a timely one, treating as it did of amusements of the day. After treating of the "lust of the flesh" and the only hope for the drunkard he spoke as follows on the "lust of the eye" and the "pride of life."
The lust of the eye, the power of the world to make us forget God, to make us worship and serve the creature more than the Creator, to choke us with cares and riches and pleasures, so that we may bring no fruit to perfection, this lust, what life is there which has not felt its blight?
It is a hard temptation to decline, for it changes with the circumstances of each life. It is not the same for any two individuals. There are sources of temptation to every life. All seek naturally after pleasure. Pleasures are not evil in themselves, but all of them, when touching upon our bad hearts, are prime causes of evil. People say that they must have pleasures, that it is a natural hunger of the heart, and they say rightly. But pleasure has its limits. To escape the poison of worldly lust, it must be sanctified by the word of God and by prayer.
Do dancing, card playing, theatre-going, croquet, billiards, lawn tennis, novel reading, music, painting, gossiping, lunching interfere with the flow of your religious life, benumb your soul from prayer, from desire for the Holy Feast, from thoughts of Heaven, from meditations upon the life and the love of Jesus? "If thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee, for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into Hell."
Do you ask, how can we draw the line? How can we know when these pleasures of life are hurtful to us? Would it not be better for the church to give us rules, and tell us what we may do, and what we should not do? Dear friends! the Saviour gave us no rules. He gave us simply himself. Let the Holy Feast of the altar, where He comes to meet you, be your guide. For there you will be with the Saviour upon the top of an exceeding high mountain, the mountain of human aspiration, from which the evil one has been dethroned, and as the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them pass before your imagination, the vision of a greater glory will fill the eye of your soul.
—The Portsmouth Times, Portsmouth, Ohio, Feb. 22, 1902, p. 7.
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Rev. Samuel Fallows: "Odin Fell Before Jehovah"
1918
From a sermon by the Rt. Rev. Bishop Samuel Fallows, D.D., of the Reformed Episcopal church, delivered in Chicago, November 24.
We come to the closing of the war and the beginning of the conferences on peace with devout Thanksgiving to God for the multitude of His mercies toward us. We have now to reaffirm the great truth that "He hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on all the face of the earth."
One nation had forgotten its lineage and its obligations to other nations. Nay, its ruthless rulers had forsworn the God and Father of all mankind, and worshipped the pagan tribal god Odin.
In that greatest of all wars Odin was pitted against Jehovah. All the basest passions of barbaric men were let loose. All the resources of science were used to blast and blind and destroy.
Jehovah triumphed. Our glorious, victorious boys are coming home crowned with immortal honor. The recreant foes are begging for bread. We will give it, but for repentant rebels. Its strength must be used to help pay the immense debt it owes to the countries it has ravished and ravaged.
—Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette, Fort Wayne, IN, Dec. 2, 1918, p. 4.
Thanksgiving Day Prayer by British
The Rt. Rev. Samuel Fallows Offers Thanks for Victorious Peace
CHICAGO, Nov. 28. — The Rt. Rev. Samuel Fallows, Episcopal bishop today offered the following Thanksgiving day prayer, recommending its general use.
"O God the ruler of the nations, we devoutly thank Thee for the splendid victory Thou hast given us who have been contending for the right over the arch enemies of mankind.
"The peoples who sat in darkness have seen a great light, the light of liberty. Songs of unutterable joy have broken from their lips. Tears of gladness have bedewed their cheeks. The prisoners have leaped exultantly from their chains.
"Despotic rulers are fleeing in hottest haste. The reign of the Lord's anointed has begun.
"Confusion may exist before the foundations of justice and righteousness are fully established. But Thou who didst crown our arms with triumph will ever rule for lasting good.
"Give us the grace to re-arrange speedily for the best all our industrial and economic affairs. Unite more closely together all our varied nationalities at home and our faithful allies abroad.
"Bring into one great unity of brotherhood all diversified believers of every faith and creed. And as our brave boys come back we thank Thee that we can so joyously sing:
"Let all the nations know to earth's remotest bounds,
"The year of jubilee has come, return ye glorious heroes home.
"And to Thee be all the praise for ever. Amen."
—Sandusky Star Journal, Sandusky, OH, Nov. 28, 1918, p. 6.
From a sermon by the Rt. Rev. Bishop Samuel Fallows, D.D., of the Reformed Episcopal church, delivered in Chicago, November 24.
We come to the closing of the war and the beginning of the conferences on peace with devout Thanksgiving to God for the multitude of His mercies toward us. We have now to reaffirm the great truth that "He hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on all the face of the earth."
One nation had forgotten its lineage and its obligations to other nations. Nay, its ruthless rulers had forsworn the God and Father of all mankind, and worshipped the pagan tribal god Odin.
In that greatest of all wars Odin was pitted against Jehovah. All the basest passions of barbaric men were let loose. All the resources of science were used to blast and blind and destroy.
Jehovah triumphed. Our glorious, victorious boys are coming home crowned with immortal honor. The recreant foes are begging for bread. We will give it, but for repentant rebels. Its strength must be used to help pay the immense debt it owes to the countries it has ravished and ravaged.
—Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette, Fort Wayne, IN, Dec. 2, 1918, p. 4.
Thanksgiving Day Prayer by British
The Rt. Rev. Samuel Fallows Offers Thanks for Victorious Peace
CHICAGO, Nov. 28. — The Rt. Rev. Samuel Fallows, Episcopal bishop today offered the following Thanksgiving day prayer, recommending its general use.
"O God the ruler of the nations, we devoutly thank Thee for the splendid victory Thou hast given us who have been contending for the right over the arch enemies of mankind.
"The peoples who sat in darkness have seen a great light, the light of liberty. Songs of unutterable joy have broken from their lips. Tears of gladness have bedewed their cheeks. The prisoners have leaped exultantly from their chains.
"Despotic rulers are fleeing in hottest haste. The reign of the Lord's anointed has begun.
"Confusion may exist before the foundations of justice and righteousness are fully established. But Thou who didst crown our arms with triumph will ever rule for lasting good.
"Give us the grace to re-arrange speedily for the best all our industrial and economic affairs. Unite more closely together all our varied nationalities at home and our faithful allies abroad.
"Bring into one great unity of brotherhood all diversified believers of every faith and creed. And as our brave boys come back we thank Thee that we can so joyously sing:
"Let all the nations know to earth's remotest bounds,
"The year of jubilee has come, return ye glorious heroes home.
"And to Thee be all the praise for ever. Amen."
—Sandusky Star Journal, Sandusky, OH, Nov. 28, 1918, p. 6.
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Holiness Healing Reported at Marion
Indiana, 1905
An Aged Man Cured of Palsy as He Knelt at the Altar in a Holiness Tent
Marion, Ind., Aug. 18. — A remarkable case of healing is reported from the tent meeting of Levi Lupton, of the Holiness society, which is now holding its third annual meeting in the grove near the old normal building on Thirty-eighth street. A few weeks ago Mr. Lupton arrived in his private gospel car, which was sidetracked at a convenient point on the belt line, and he proceeded to arouse great spiritual interest in the vicinity of the tents at the scene of the camp meeting.
Wednesday was announced by Lupton as a time for divine healing. Among those who attended the meetings was Aaron Sims, a palsied man of near Fairmont. Sims was 77 years of age, and in addition to his palsy was crippled with rheumatism to the extent that he had to use a cane in walking. His afflictions had rested on him for many years.
When the invitation was extended to those assembled to come to the altar and be healed of their afflictions, Sims was one to go forward. For a long time he sat on the altar rail before kneeling to ask in prayer that his infirmities be taken away from him. He finally knelt, and in the midst of the shouting and exhortations going on all about him he quickly arose, threw away the cane on which he had leaned for many years, and ran and skipped like a boy, proclaiming that he was cured of his afflictions.
Those who had known Sims a long time could scarcely believe their eyes at the sight of him in activity. He apparently had no palsy or rheumatism. It was in the morning that the healing occurred and Aaron Sims remained about the tents all day uttering praises for his deliverance. Before leaving in the evening he presented Mr. Lupton his cane, stating that he was a poor man and had little else to give him.
—The Fort Wayne Sentinel, Fort Wayne, Indiana, Aug. 18, 1905, p. 8.
An Aged Man Cured of Palsy as He Knelt at the Altar in a Holiness Tent
Marion, Ind., Aug. 18. — A remarkable case of healing is reported from the tent meeting of Levi Lupton, of the Holiness society, which is now holding its third annual meeting in the grove near the old normal building on Thirty-eighth street. A few weeks ago Mr. Lupton arrived in his private gospel car, which was sidetracked at a convenient point on the belt line, and he proceeded to arouse great spiritual interest in the vicinity of the tents at the scene of the camp meeting.
Wednesday was announced by Lupton as a time for divine healing. Among those who attended the meetings was Aaron Sims, a palsied man of near Fairmont. Sims was 77 years of age, and in addition to his palsy was crippled with rheumatism to the extent that he had to use a cane in walking. His afflictions had rested on him for many years.
When the invitation was extended to those assembled to come to the altar and be healed of their afflictions, Sims was one to go forward. For a long time he sat on the altar rail before kneeling to ask in prayer that his infirmities be taken away from him. He finally knelt, and in the midst of the shouting and exhortations going on all about him he quickly arose, threw away the cane on which he had leaned for many years, and ran and skipped like a boy, proclaiming that he was cured of his afflictions.
Those who had known Sims a long time could scarcely believe their eyes at the sight of him in activity. He apparently had no palsy or rheumatism. It was in the morning that the healing occurred and Aaron Sims remained about the tents all day uttering praises for his deliverance. Before leaving in the evening he presented Mr. Lupton his cane, stating that he was a poor man and had little else to give him.
—The Fort Wayne Sentinel, Fort Wayne, Indiana, Aug. 18, 1905, p. 8.
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
At the Memorial for Rev. Thomas De Witt Talmage, D.D.
April 1902
From Memorial Sermon by His Son, Rev. Frank De Witt Talmage, D.D.
"Sermons With Comfort In Them"
It was because my father's sermons were the products of a Spirit-filled life that the millions were able to find comfort in them. Whenever he would take a lecture trip the people would crowd about him by the thousands, uttering such greetings as "I read your sermon on 'Tears' by my baby's casket, and I have found Christ;" "I read your sermon upon 'Recognition of Friends In Heaven' to my mother when she was dying;" "I read this or that when I was in a certain trouble, and the sermon brought light to my soul."
Let no hearer or reader of this sermon think for one instant that my father's work was a man made work. My father's work was a divinely inspired work. He was called as certainly to do his work as Paul and Peter and John were called to do theirs. He was inspired by prayer and communion with God.
Would you go with me into the death chamber? His passing away was as he himself would have had it if his own wish had been consulted. He practically died in the harness. One Sunday he was preaching in Mexico, the next on his deathbed. For five long weeks he lingered, but God mercifully benumbed the worn out and tired brain. He suffered not at all. He awoke long enough to recognize and at times call for his wife and children. But conversation was an impossibility between him and the members of his family during the weary days and nights he was sick. We were all there, all except those of the family who had preceded him to the other side and who were waiting to give him a welcome. We repeated the old verse so often spoken by his own lips:
"When round my dying bed assemble those I love."
A dear old family friend uttered a sweet prayer. That was all. We watched and waited until his mortal life was lifted into the heavenly life. There were a few tears, a few callings of goodbye. He slipped away so quietly we could not tell when he was gone. He was asleep. The tired heart ceased to beat. The old sweet restful look came back to the loving face.
We laid him away for a little while in the family plot in beautiful Greenwood. As I lifted my hand over the open grave to pronounce the benediction, I said to myself, "So may we all live and labor, that when our work is done we may go to our rest in the full conviction that when we awake it will be like this glorified spirit in the likeness of his Lord."
From Memorial Sermon by His Son, Rev. Frank De Witt Talmage, D.D.
"Sermons With Comfort In Them"
It was because my father's sermons were the products of a Spirit-filled life that the millions were able to find comfort in them. Whenever he would take a lecture trip the people would crowd about him by the thousands, uttering such greetings as "I read your sermon on 'Tears' by my baby's casket, and I have found Christ;" "I read your sermon upon 'Recognition of Friends In Heaven' to my mother when she was dying;" "I read this or that when I was in a certain trouble, and the sermon brought light to my soul."
Let no hearer or reader of this sermon think for one instant that my father's work was a man made work. My father's work was a divinely inspired work. He was called as certainly to do his work as Paul and Peter and John were called to do theirs. He was inspired by prayer and communion with God.
Would you go with me into the death chamber? His passing away was as he himself would have had it if his own wish had been consulted. He practically died in the harness. One Sunday he was preaching in Mexico, the next on his deathbed. For five long weeks he lingered, but God mercifully benumbed the worn out and tired brain. He suffered not at all. He awoke long enough to recognize and at times call for his wife and children. But conversation was an impossibility between him and the members of his family during the weary days and nights he was sick. We were all there, all except those of the family who had preceded him to the other side and who were waiting to give him a welcome. We repeated the old verse so often spoken by his own lips:
"When round my dying bed assemble those I love."
A dear old family friend uttered a sweet prayer. That was all. We watched and waited until his mortal life was lifted into the heavenly life. There were a few tears, a few callings of goodbye. He slipped away so quietly we could not tell when he was gone. He was asleep. The tired heart ceased to beat. The old sweet restful look came back to the loving face.
We laid him away for a little while in the family plot in beautiful Greenwood. As I lifted my hand over the open grave to pronounce the benediction, I said to myself, "So may we all live and labor, that when our work is done we may go to our rest in the full conviction that when we awake it will be like this glorified spirit in the likeness of his Lord."
Monday, May 14, 2007
Prayer and Power
1917
If you want your spiritual life to be more healthy and vigorous, you must just come more boldly to the throne of grace. The secret of your weakness is your little faith and little prayer. The fountain is unsealed, but you only sip a few drops. The bread of life is before you, yet you only eat a few crumbs. The treasury of heaven is open, but you only take a few pence. O man of little faith, wherefore do you doubt?
Come boldly to the throne of grace, where the Father is ever waiting to give, and Jesus stands by him to intercede. Come boldly, for you may, all sinful as you are, if you come in the name of the great High Priest. Come then boldly and ask largely, and you shall have abundant answers, mercy like a river, and grace and strength like a mighty stream. Come boldly and you shall have supplies exceeding all you can ask or think. Hitherto you have asked nothing; ask and receive, that your joy may be full. — Bishop J. O. Ryle.
If you want your spiritual life to be more healthy and vigorous, you must just come more boldly to the throne of grace. The secret of your weakness is your little faith and little prayer. The fountain is unsealed, but you only sip a few drops. The bread of life is before you, yet you only eat a few crumbs. The treasury of heaven is open, but you only take a few pence. O man of little faith, wherefore do you doubt?
Come boldly to the throne of grace, where the Father is ever waiting to give, and Jesus stands by him to intercede. Come boldly, for you may, all sinful as you are, if you come in the name of the great High Priest. Come then boldly and ask largely, and you shall have abundant answers, mercy like a river, and grace and strength like a mighty stream. Come boldly and you shall have supplies exceeding all you can ask or think. Hitherto you have asked nothing; ask and receive, that your joy may be full. — Bishop J. O. Ryle.
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